Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 13833, Samuel Dougherty, Mass.

SERVICE
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Dougherty, Samuel No. 13833. Pratt, Mary (Former widow.)
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Massachusetts 228
Mary Pratt formerly widow of Samuel Hougherty decd.
who died in the fall of 1785 of Hampshire in the State of Mass who was a Private in the _____ commanded by Captain _____ of the _____ commanded by _____ in the Mass. line for _____
Inscribed on the Roll of Mass. at the rate of 30 Dollars _____ Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1838
Certificate of Pension issued the 24 day of Aug. 1838 and sent Mason Shaw Present
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 38 $210.00 Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sept., 15.00
$225.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act July 4, 1836, Section the 3 d }
Recorded by M. G. Dison Clerk, Book _____ Vol. _____ Page 57
Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of 6. April 1838 from 4. March 4. Sep 1842 Age Notified, 5 Dec 1844

X 3457 Mary Pratt's declaration

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampshire County ss.
On this twenty fifth day of December in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and thirty seven personally appeared before me Ethan Hovey Judge of Probate of Wills &c for said County of Hampshire
Mary Pratt, a resident of Belchertown in said County of Hampshire and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged eighty five years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress passed July 4 th 1836. and the act explanatory of said act, passed March 3 rd 1837. That she was married to Samuel Dougherty who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war. That said Samuel Dougherty in the year 1780 enlisted into the Army, at Barre in the County of Worcester in said Commonwealth where they then lived, and served in the Army until discharged at the close of the year 1783; That he was absent from home three years and six months, and was never at home but once during that time; That she had often seen his discharge, but knows not where it now is; That said Samuel Dougherty returned home to his family the very last

of November, or in the month of December 1783; and furthermore, that she had understood from him, that he served in the army eight or nine months at Boston immedia- -ly after the battle at Lexington, but she does not remem- -ber the name of any officer - either captain or colonel under whom he served at any time. That she always understood that he enlisted into the three years service, but always declined enlisting during the war.
She further declared, that she was married to the said Samuel Doughty, at Paxton in the County of Worcester in said Commonwealth in the month of February 1778, as she thinks, by the Rev. Mr. Hayer, then the congregational minister in said Paxton, and that her husband, the aforesaid Samuel Doughty died in the fall of the year 1785, at a place called Half Moon in the state of New York.
That she afterwards married Micah Pratt, who died on the twenty seventh day of April 1813: and, that she was a widow on the 4 th July, 1836, and still remains a widow, as will more fully appear by ref- -erence to the proof hereto annexed.
Mary his  his Pratt mark -
Sworn to and subscribed on the day and year above written
Before me Nathan Loomis judge of Probate
I hereby certify that by reason of bodily infirmity the aforesaid applicant is unable to attend court
Nathan Loomis judge of Probate

I Attilison Knight aged thirty four years testify & say that I am the town clerk of Paxton in the County of Worcester in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and that the intention of marriage between Samuel Dougherty of Leicester in the same County and Mary Martin of said Paxton appears on the Town Records of said Paxton in the following words, to wit "Samuel Dougherty of Leicester and the widow Mary Martin of Paxton intend marriage January 24 th 1778" Addison Knight
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Worcester County ss.
January 3 rd 1838 Then the above named Attilison Knight appeared before and made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed Before me, James Day, Justice of the Peace
I certify that Attilison Knight above named is a person of truth and veracity and that full credit is to be given to the truth of his deposition above written. James Day, Justice of the Peace

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Worcester ss. — I, Jos. G. Kendall, Clerk of the Court of the Crown of Common Pleas within and for said County, being a Court of Record, certify that the within named James Day, whose name is subscribed to the two Depositions foregoing, is a Justice of the Peace within and for said County, — that his signature attestation to the said Depositions is in his own hand writing — and said Day is duly qualified to act in such capacity —
In Witness Whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court at Worcester this sixth day of April A.D. 1838 —
Jos. G. Kendall, Clerk

Jonas Pratt's Deposition of Mary Pratt's 2 d marriage de

I Jonas Pratt of Methesbury in the county of Franklin in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. aged fifty four years. testify and say that my father Micah Pratt married Mary Dougherty the widow of Samuel Dougherty in the fall of the year of eighteen hundred and eight - and that said Micah Pratt died on the twenty seventh day of April eighteen hundred and thirteen. and I further testify and say that I was present at the marriage of said Micah Pratt and Mary Dougherty. Jonas Pratt
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampshire county p. December 15 th 1837
Personally appeared Jonas Pratt and made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed.
Before me. Mason Shaw Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above named Jonas Pratt is a person of truth and veracity and that full credit should be given to the truth of his deposition by him above subscribed.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
Hampshire ss.
I, SAMUEL F. LYMAN, Register of the Court of Probate within and for said County of Hampshire, do hereby certify that Mason Shaw Esquire, before whom the annexed deposition was taken, was, at the date thereof, one of the Justices of the Peace within and for said County, duly and regularly appointed, and that the signature thereto annexed purporting to be his, I know to be genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this twenty seventh day of March A. D. 1838
Sam l F. Lyman Register of Probate.

I Jonas Pratt of Methesbury in the county of Franklin in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. aged fifty four years, testify and say that my father Micah Pratt married Mary Dougherty the widow of Samuel Dougherty in the fall of the year of eighteen hundred and eight - and that said Micah Pratt died on the twenty seventh day of April eighteen hundred and thirteen. and I further testify and say that I was present at the marriage of said Micah Pratt and Mary Dougherty. Jonas Pratt
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Hampshire County p. December 15 th 1837
Personally appeared Jonas Pratt and made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by him subscribed.
Before me. Mason Shaw Justice of the Peace
I certify that the above named Jonas Pratt is a person of truth and veracity and that full credit should be given to the truth of his deposition by him above subscribed.
Mason Shaw Justice of the Peace
thereof, one of my appointed, and that the signature thereon genuine.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court, this twenty seventh day of March A. D. 1838
Sam l L. Lyman Register of Probate.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
SECOND COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE,
Wai'y 15 th 1844.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838, entitled "An Act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," and the third section of the Act of August 23, 1842, extending the time within which pensioners may receive their pensions from the pension agents, The Adm: of Mary Pratt, decd., a Pensioner on the Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate of Thirty — Dollars and — Cents per annum, under the law of the 4 th July 1836, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of March — to the 4 th Sept. 1842.
Respectfully, yours,
J. M. W.  H. Parsons Comptroller.
To the COMMISSIONER OF PENSIONS, Present.

Josiah Livermore's Dyng. of Service in 1780

Saratoga County } State of New York } ss. }
Josiah Livermore being duly Sworn Saith, that he resides in the Town of Northumberland County of Saratoga - that he is Seventy Seven Years of age next may, that he was a Soldier in the war of the revolution - that he knew a man by the name of Samuel Daugherty who served in the 13 th Massachusetts Regiment Commanded by Coll. Smith, the same Regiment that this deponent served in, but not in the same Company - was with him at "Robinsons farms" "Hackensack", and Orange town in New Jersey, does not Recollect the Captains Name or the Company said Daugherty served in - he does not know the time that the said Daugherty served, but he was then during that campaign which was in 1880. the said Daugherty was a Barber & has shaved this Deponent often which makes him particular in his recollection of him, does not know of his own knowledge who the said Daugherty married but had under stood that he was married to a Miss Martin in the Town of Payton, and further this Deponent Saith not.
Sworn & subscribed before Josiah Livermore on this sixth day of March 1838.
Thomas Conland Commissioner of Deeds Saratoga County

I Abigail Goodnow of Paxton in the County of Worcester in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged seventy nine years testify and say that I know Samuel Doughty and was always well acquainted with Mary Martin of the same Paxton and that said Samuel Doughty and Mary Martin were married some time during the Revolutionary war, by the Rev. Alexander Heayer the then Pastor of the Congregational Church & Society in said Paxton, and that I visited the said Samuel Doughty and his said wife afterwards at their dwelling house in said Paxton occasionally until they removed from Paxton to Barre - or elsewhere and I further testify and say that the marriage aforesaid of the said Samuel Doughty and Mary Martin was a fact as notorious as that of any marriage whatever. Abigail Goodnow
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Worcester County ss. January 3 d 1838 - Then the above named Abigail Goodnow personally appeared and made solemn oath to the truth of the above deposition by her subscribe before me James Day Justice of the Peace
I certify that above named Abigail Goodnow is a person of truth and veracity and that she is of sound mind & memory, and that full credit is to be given to the truth of her deposition above written. James Day Justice of the Peace.

I Elijah Galswell of Barr in the County of Worcester in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged seventy six years testify and say that I knew Samuel Dougherty formerly of this town, and that he moved into this town, and into the School house in the School District in which I have always lived some time before the dark day in 1780, and that about that time - from about that time , from the then common report I believe he enlisted and went into the army of the Revolution, and I will remember that he was absent from his family for several years - two or more certainly; and that it was generally understood and believed that said Samuel Dougherty was a soldier in the Revolution- ary army, and of which fact I have no doubt in my mind, and I well remember that his wife during his said absence was in very destitute cir- cumstances and suffered much for want of the common necessaries of living, and further the Deponent saith not, Elijah Galswell

appeared before me, and made solemn oath that the deposition before written and by him subscribed is true
Seth Baldwin. Jus. Peace
I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with said Lyman Sibley that he is a man of truth and veracity, and that full credit should be given to the truth of his deposition.
Seth Baldwin } Just. Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Worcester, ss. I certify, that Seth Baldwin and Lyman Sibley, Esquires, are justices of the peace, within and for said county of Worcester - and that their signatures to the certificates of the oaths of said Sibley and Elijah Baldwell, to their respective Depositions hereto annexed, are in their own proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof, I hereto set my hand, and affix the seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said county, at Worcester, this twenty seventh day of July, in the year 1838.
William Jennison, Assistant Clerk.

I Lyman Sibley of Barre in the County of Worcester and Commonwealth of Massachusetts do hereby certify and say that I am the Town Clerk of said Town and have the custody of the Records of said Town, and that by the Records thereof it appears that at a town meeting legally held on the 26 th day of March 1781 in a settlement made with the Town Insurers thereof, and accepted that day by the Town, the following appears of Record as a part of the doings therein to wit  "Paid out upon the Selectmens orders" "to pay the six months men and three" "months men raised in the year 1780." "Paid to Andrew Thompson part of } "Samuel Dorthy's hire £ 203. 2. 6 "Paid to Samuel Carruth part of } "Dorthy's hire £ 545. 10. 0 And further the deponent saith not  Lyman Sibley
State of Massachusetts } July 5 th 1820 Worcester County ss Then Lyman Sibley, above named personally

I Elijah Galswell of Barr in the County of Worcester in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts aged seventy six years testify and say that I know Samuel Dougherty formerly of this town, and that he moved into this town, and into the School house in the School District in which I have always lived some time before the dark day in 1780, and that about that time - from about that time , from the then common report I believe he enlisted and went into the army of the Revolution, and I will remember that he was absent from his family for several years - two or more certainly; and that it was generally understood and believed that said Samuel Dougherty was a Soldier in the Revolution- ary army, and of which fact I have no doubt in my mind, and I well remember that his wife during his said absence was in very destitute cir- cumstances and suffered much for want of the common necessaries of living, and further the Deponent saith not, Elijah Galswell

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Worcester County ss. July 5 th 1838
Then Elijah Caldwell before mentioned personally appeared and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed -
Before me Lyman Sibley Jus. Peace
I hereby certify, that I am well acquainted with the above named Elijah Caldwell - and that he is a person of truth and veracity - and that full credit ought to be given to the truths of his deposition.
Lyman Sibley Jus Peace

Mary Pratt's cash
Mason Shaw, Belchertown, Mass Aug 20

Washington August 18 th 1838
J. L. Edwards Esq. Sir,
The case of Mary Pratt which I forwarded to the Pension office last winter, seems to have been misunderstood, altho I stated the facts as represented to me to Mr. Wm B. Calhoun.
In 1780 there was a requisition from government for a certain number of men to be raised for six months. The towns in Massachusetts were classed, & Barre in Worcester County had to raise eighteen men. They were accordingly raised, and Samuel Dougherty was, probably, hired to serve as a substitute for Andrew Thompson or Samuel Carruth who were drafted, & who assisted him with an outfit and supplies for his family.
Afterwards, a class for three months service was called for, and said Dougherty continued to serve as a substitute for one of them for that term also. To confirm this statement, see the deposition of Lyman Sibley herewith enclosed. showing the payment of said Barre to Carruth & Thompson severally, for the hire of said Dougherty for the six months, and three months, service, as appears of Record. The town never paid these sums, without sufficient evidence of Dougherty's having

performed said terms of service, According to her statement, she was then persuaded to enlist during the war but refused, but without return- ing home, she then entered into the three years service, which accounts for his name not appearing in any list of three years men raised in Barn as mentioned in your favour of May 15 th which you supposed must have been the case.
The deposition of Mr. Caldwell (also enclosed) the only person now living in that school District confirms his long absence and her great suffering during the remainder of the war.
Altho Samuel Dougherty enlisted while in the army into the three years service, he probably continued in the Massachusetts line. I therefore, on her behalf, ask the favour, so far as it can with propriety be granted, to examine the rolls of the several Regi- ments for his name - The officers name who gave the discharge is not remembered.
There is another reason for pursuing this exam- ination. His 6 & 3 months services must have expired the last of Febry 1781. and if it should appear that he served from that time to Nov r 1783 in the 3 years service, as he has declared, she will be

entitled to a Bounty therefor from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Gen Lee and Mr. Durn. pensioners who have always lived in Barr. stated to me recently that they had no doubt, but that said Dougherty continued in the army from the time he first enlisted in 1780 until the army was disbanded in the fall of 1783.
Very respectfully
your obt serv
Mason Shaw.

Washington August 24 th 1838
J. L. Edwards Esq. Sir,
Your favours of the 22 d instant are before me, I notice the result of the examination of the rolls for evidence of the services of Samuel Dougherty the former husband of Mary Pratt, and the conclusion which you have made in her case.
I will take the pension certificate for the nine months service, with the understanding, as expressed in the conclusion, that "should she be able, hereafter to establish the other service it will be allowed to her," meaning, I presume, that she would be entitled to draw the balance of the arrearage in proportion to the time, that it may be found that said Dougherty served, as well as the increased amount her increased pension in future.
In the case of Thomas Dennison, I thank you for your early attention to his claim, I fear I shall get no information from the Comptroller's office at Hartford. All the original documents of the state of Connecticut, at the request of the Secy. of war, by a resolve of the Legislature of that state were transmitted to the war department. Unless a certificate of a settlement made with Capt Ebenezer Glance  Morse should be of any use without the enrollment of his company - all other evidence must be in the War Department. Very respectfully, your obed Servt Nelson Shew

X 3457 - Mary Pratt same ind of same Dougherty do Mass.
Alt 9 m. pri
Bus W Hon W B
Calhoun May 15
1838 do do
May 28 W B
do do Mason Shaw
Aug 22 1838
Alt. 4 July 1836

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WIDOW, &c.
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File No. 13833.
Mary Pratt Widow of Samuel Dougherty Pris Rev War
Act: July 4 th 86
Index:—Vol. M , Page 141
[Arrangement of 1870.]